Chapter 221: Chapter 221: Perverted Psyche

Chapter 221: Perverted Psyche

“The first place I visited was City C… not that I don’t want to remember, but once I got there, Second Brother and Third Brother made me put on a blindfold. They then led me somewhere.”

Peng Junlong, his expression strange, said, “When they removed my blindfold, I found myself in a basement. No—wait, it wasn’t just a basement; it felt like an underground prison. There were numerous rooms, with cells resembling iron cages… holding three people: a woman, a child, and a man!”

“They were covered in various wounds and equipped with bizarre torture devices. They couldn’t even cry out in pain because their mouths had been stitched shut with threads so fine, needle after needle, like centipede legs. Anyone with trypanophobia would have a nightmare just looking at them…”

Xiao Yu was momentarily stunned.

Abusing their own kind with such brutality?

But to what end?

“At that time I wondered, how do these ‘207’ people eat when their mouths are sewn shut?”

Peng Junlong shuddered. “Second Brother told me to eat with our noses!”

“At first I didn’t believe him; but lo and behold… those people really ate using their noses!”

“They had bowls of porridge placed before them. Even though they were strapped with torture devices and their mouths were sewn shut… they knelt on the ground, burying their faces in the bowls like beasts, sucking the porridge in through their noses!”

“Third Brother laughed and said, ‘If they don’t eat with their noses, they’ll starve!'”

“At that moment, Second Brother also laughed at me, saying, ‘Since you’ve uncovered their secret, you can only play along with us from now on…'”

“I was terrified. I wanted to run. Third Brother pulled out a knife and even a gun. He pointed the gun at me and tossed the knife to me… commanding me to kill one of the captives in those cells… a woman!”

“Meanwhile, Second Brother was recording everything on a video camera.”

Peng Junlong wept bitterly, crying, “I had no choice; if I refused, I’d die. They said that if I didn’t comply, they would kill my parents. I knew exactly what they were capable of—they didn’t see people as human at all!”

Xiao Yu analyzed the situation in silence, his face impassive.

He had already imagined that horrifying scene.

He could vividly picture the miserable conditions faced by that woman, the child, and the man…

Those known as ‘Second Brother’ and ‘Third Brother’ could no longer be labeled as merely perverse.

This had escalated well beyond abuse.

It had transformed into sheer cruelty, sadistic rampage—and even outright murder.

Just as Peng Junlong had said, they didn’t see people as human at all!

“I killed that woman!”

Peng Junlong closed his eyes in agony, “They forced me to use a knife to carve the meat from her corpse… then they made me… eat it… Ugh!”

Even as he spoke, he began to vomit uncontrollably.

Xiao Yu watched him coolly, observing his relentless retching.

Did he feel any pity?

Not at all.

Even though Second Brother and Third Brother had introduced him to that horrific world…

And then?

Why did Peng Junlong never report it to the police?

Was it because he feared for his own life? Or his parents’?

Certainly not.

Even though Second Brother and Third Brother were undeniably cruel and depraved,

such crimes, if uncovered by the police, would undoubtedly trigger an intensive investigation.

It’s easy to guess that Peng Junlong must have done something himself.

That’s why he’d hidden everything until now, forced to reveal the truth.

What exactly did he do? Xiao Yu wasn’t concerned at the moment.

He’d pry into that detail later.

For now, his priority was to understand the whole sequence of events.

Especially… the details surrounding Wang Mei.

That was where the case truly began!

“Continue,” he commanded.

After Peng Junlong had vomited enough, Xiao Yu, ignoring the nauseating stench in the interrogation room, asked coolly,

“Then… what happened next?”

A weak, gasping Peng Junlong began, “They took me to two more places. One was in the city; the other was rather bizarre… we even took a boat there. It seemed to be a small island. Once we arrived, even inside the building I could hear the sound of crashing waves and the sea wind. Being from Bincheng, I was quite familiar with those sounds.”

Two cities and a small island?

That made at least three crime scenes.

Xiao Yu listened silently, his mind analyzing every detail.

“The second place was much like the first,”

Peng Junlong’s face darkened with terror again. “But that island was truly horrifying. The basement under the house was unimaginably vast, filled with terrifying contraptions… It seemed like Second Brother and Third Brother had designed it specifically. They deliberately let some people loose to watch them flee in the basement… I saw one person on the monitor, their escape ending as they were sliced into pieces by a saw blade…”

“Another person fell into a trap and was impaled so completely that he looked like a hedgehog…”

“And yet another ended up in a gigantic mixer… reduced to a heap of meat!”

Xiao Yu’s expression shifted slightly.

A foreboding feeling crept into his mind.

For starters, at least five victims had been brutally murdered.

Wang Mei, a woman, and three others who fell into traps…

Moreover, anyone capable of designing such traps wasn’t just depraved—they had to be intelligent.

Did they really think that anyone could just set up traps like that?

When everyone else was foolish enough to spring those traps?

He even recalled Peng Junlong mentioning the escapees had apparently failed to notice the traps…

What could Second Brother and Third Brother possibly want?

Xiao Yu made his deductions.

First, to satisfy their own perverse desires!

Second, to chase after adrenaline-fueled thrills!

Third, they were venting—entertaining themselves!

Are there really so many twisted people in the world?

Far too many!

It’s just that only certain people have the money, the means, to fulfill these perverse fantasies and indulge in such acts.

If some people ever gain the power and the money, perhaps they’d go even crazier!

“Four years ago, you and Wang Mei were together. Wang Mei even brought a girl to join in your games,”

Xiao Yu took a deep breath. “You once ate some kind of meat. What meat was it?”

“Four years ago?”

Peng Junlong fell into thought, then suddenly remembered, “Oh, that was pangolin meat. Second Brother and Third Brother claimed its texture was identical to that of human flesh—accusingly saying it was 5.8… Ugh!”

He began to vomit yet again.

There was no need to ask further—Xiao Yu had already deduced it.

Those so-called Second Brother and Third Brother… they ate people.

Otherwise, how could they possibly talk about ‘texture’?

“Three years ago, why did they kill Wang Mei?” Xiao Yu pressed on.

“It was done by Second Brother and Third Brother,”

Peng Junlong shook his head. “I didn’t do it. They did it just for the thrill—yes, they did it to toy with a woman, then kill her to make Wang Mei’s boyfriend think he’d done it. They even stole Wang Mei’s body, fearing that without it, any evidence would only lead to chaos. Without a body, nothing would come of it, and they’d never be caught…”

It all became clear… Xiao Yu sneered bitterly, a murderous intent welling up inside him.

Was Wang Mei’s death all just a twisted game? Mere entertainment?

To treat murder as a form of amusement?

You all deserve to die!